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Message-ID: <45057651.8000404@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:44:33 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 17:47 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Shtylyov:
>>     It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure that drive 
>> aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 256 actually). The 
>> exact model was IBM DHEA-34331.
> 
> Several people reported this problem when we tried 256 years ago in
> drivers/ide. You might want to do 256 for SATA Jeff but please don't do
> 256 for PATA. Reading specs is too hard for some people ;)
> 
> Some drives abort the xfer, some just choked.

Where in drivers/ide is it limited to 255?

	Jeff



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